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The Best Space Games of 2020 – A Look At The Upcoming Titles and Updates

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Six space games are colliding into 2020, and not all of them are going to make it.

Gaming creator ObsidianAnt used his January 2020 showcase, “The Best Space Games of 2020 – A Look At The Upcoming Titles and Updates,” to lay out exactly which titles matter this year and which ones are already at risk of missing their window. The rundown sticks to mainstream, major-studio space projects — Cloud Imperium Games’ Star Citizen and its single-player campaign Squadron 42, Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky, Frontier Developments’ Elite Dangerous, Ubisoft’s Beyond Good and Evil 2, and Private Division’s Kerbal Space Program 2 — with independent space titles held back for a separate video.

• Star Citizen and its standalone cinematic campaign Squadron 42 anchor the video as the genre’s most ambitious combat-and-exploration project from Cloud Imperium Games.
• No Man’s Sky (Hello Games) and Elite Dangerous (Frontier Developments) represent the genre’s established open-universe exploration side, both still expanding years after launch.
• Beyond Good and Evil 2, Kerbal Space Program 2, and Squadron 42 are all flagged as likely to slip past 2020 and into 2021.

The Combat and Exploration Heavyweights

Star Citizen remains the centerpiece of the presentation, built by Cloud Imperium Games as a persistent, detailed universe combining space combat, trading, and first-person exploration. Its companion project, Squadron 42, is singled out separately as the standalone cinematic single-player campaign spun out of the same production — a distinction ObsidianAnt makes clear because the two are frequently confused as one release.

On the exploration side, No Man’s Sky continues to grow years past its original launch, with Hello Games treated in the video as a studio still actively expanding its procedurally generated universe rather than a finished product. Elite Dangerous gets the same treatment from Frontier Developments, framed as an ongoing galaxy-spanning simulation rather than a one-off release, which is why both titles land on a “2020 updates” list instead of a straight new-release rundown.

The Wildcards Outside Pure Space Sims

Not every title on the list is a flight-stick simulator. Ubisoft’s Beyond Good and Evil 2 makes the cut as the action-adventure entry, a long-gestating sequel that broadens the video’s definition of “space games” beyond cockpit-view combat and orbital mechanics. Private Division’s Kerbal Space Program 2 does the opposite job, doubling down on the physics-based rocketry and orbital-mechanics niche that made the original a cult favorite among players who treat spaceflight as a puzzle to be solved rather than a battlefield to fly through.

Beyond Good and Evil 2, Kerbal Space Program 2 and Squadron 42 may potentially slip into 2021, but have still been included.

Release Dates Define the Narrative

That line is the crux of the entire video. ObsidianAnt isn’t just cataloguing titles — he’s setting expectations, explicitly calling out three of the biggest names on the list as likely to miss 2020 entirely. Beyond Good and Evil 2, Kerbal Space Program 2, and Squadron 42 all carry the kind of ambitious, years-in-development scope that has already produced multiple delays before this video was even made, and the video treats that pattern as reason enough to hedge rather than promise.

It’s a notable contrast with how frequently big publishers lean on hype-driven showcases to sell a release window — a dynamic covered elsewhere in coverage of events like the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. Here, the framing runs the opposite direction: a creator telling his audience not to circle a calendar date just yet.

Future Outlook for the Genre

Stack the six titles together and the video makes a simple point: 2020 has both combat sims and pure exploration games, both AAA production budgets and physics-nerd niche appeal, and it still isn’t going to deliver everything at once. Fans wanting a broader sense of what else the year’s release calendar looks like can find that context in rundowns like Top 10 NEW Games of April 2020, but for space games specifically, the message from this video is patience — watch Star Citizen and Squadron 42’s alpha progress, keep an eye on No Man’s Sky and Elite Dangerous updates, and don’t hold your breath for Beyond Good and Evil 2 or Kerbal Space Program 2 before the calendar flips to 2021.